What's the Railroad to Me?

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An illustration for the story What's the Railroad to Me? by the author Henry David Thoreau
Steam locomotive running gear
An illustration for the story What's the Railroad to Me? by the author Henry David Thoreau
Steam locomotive running gear
An illustration for the story What's the Railroad to Me? by the author Henry David Thoreau


What's the railroad to me?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.


You might also enjoy Emily Dickinson's poem, The Railway Train


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